POLL: The Clean vs. The Chills

I still consider this a tie.

I blame myself. I got confused about how many days were in November and gave this poll only one day instead of the two I had originally planned.

Bah, finally got my new system up and running and look what I missed? This is sort of a classic career-breadth vs career high-points, and in my view The Clean wins the former and The Chills win the latter. I would've voted Chills regardless.

oh god so close.
new bats record sounds great btw.

haven't heard any bats apart from daddy's highway (block of wood!!!) - maybe i should

most underrated flying nun band are the gordons but they're a totally different kettle of kakapos i guess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA4ViMA2fKs

iirc gordons begat bailter space & that is certainly a good thing indeed!

Wow y'know all this time I thought Bailter Space was formed by Hamish Kilgour or that he was a prominent member, but reading their wiki it seems he was only in the band for a couple of years and yes the line up for most of the time was in fact the same as the Gordons! (who were fucking awesome, you can still get the CD of their first album pretty cheaply iirc)

TheMoreYouKnow.jpg

Also where is Daddy's Highway reissue formed?

one band that never seems to get mentioned when NZ bands are discussed are Snapper, started by Peter Gutteridge who was an ex-member of ... The Clean and The Chills!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhyIV-XLgPo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOtO2DzHNGc

never seen that first snapper video before, such a neat band!

Snapper is awesome! Bailter Space too!

Different kettle of fish, but I really like Dadamah as well...

someone talk to me about guns in flying nun songs

iirc there are guns in "anything could happen", "wheatfields", "pink frost" and probably a bunch of songs i don't know/don't remember

don't point that thing at me
what's up with the gun imagery?

you'll only end up like Rimbaud/get shot by Verlaine

God, that's what he's saying? Good to know.

i thought about wheatfields the other day because a student gave her final speech about van gogh/wheat fields/absinthe/potassium bromide... ok it was a little confusing, but long story short it made me think about flying nun gun imagery.

why dont you do yourself in?

that's what i'm saying ^^

is there some nz cultural or political thing i'm missing here?

didn't snapper have an album called 'shotgun blossom' or something?

^yeah, they did/do.

excellent record

has anyone read this? Positively George Street: A Personal History of the Sneaky Feelings and the Dunedin Sound

well surely SOMEONE has, i meant anyone who reads the above post

um also since i am reading the flying nun wiki

tracklist on this sdtk is O_O
WHAT is this MOVIE?!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topless_Women_Talk_About_Their_Lives_%28soundtrack%29

somebody plz give me that sdtrk for my birthday!

xp no I haven't read that! I should!

how can I get it?

"I Love My Leather Jacket". But not that much, eh ladies?

http://www.nzvideos.org/topwomenCD.JPG

i guess this answers my question

Liz has missed an appointment to have an abortion. She has to keep her child, and neither her boyfriend Geoff nor child's father Neil are too happy about it. She can not decide which partner is better for her, and Neil makes a proposal to her when they attend the wedding of her best friend Prue and Mike. She probably prefers Geoff, but he is preoccupied with his girlfriend Bryony, who returned from abroad. Another friend, Ant, has written a script for documentary film, which is directed by a German and in which topless women, well, talk about their lives.

apparently copies of the soundtrack can be had for less than $10, or it could be assembled -- probably without too much trouble too.
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back to guns
why are there so many guns?!

http://www.imdb.com/reviews/109/10908.html

movie sounds pretty boring tbh

idk i kinda like slice of life indie when its done well

anyways an undertone of mordant dark humor I think helps offset the chipper cheerful guitar pop that Kiwis specialize in. They are punk rockers after all

slice of life and a cup of ammo

what is there to do in dunedin but watch scorsese movies?

pomplamau5 on fire today

mordant dark humor doesn't really explain the tons of guns enough for me

check out the prices on this book!!
http://www.amazon.com/Positively-George-Street-Matthew-Bannister/dp/0790007045/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323200018&sr=8-1

Woah at prices! Glad I bought it when it came out. So yes, I read it a few years back. Good stuff. Nice personal take on the histories of loads of bands and people whose lives/tours crossed paths.

To this day I don't think I've knowingly heard a Sneaky Feelings song though.

here's one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVCHn7-qBB8

That book looks amazing! Too bad it's so expensive and it doesn't appear to be in any north american libraries either.

No idea about the gun thing -- I've never pictured NZ as a place with lots of guns, but, then again, a lot of it is rural....

Do you really think the gun imagery is disproportionate, though?
I mean, have we considered the number of gun songs during roughly the same period elsewhere in the world?

Somebody should do some research and then write a book about it

i nominate nabisco

apparently copies of the soundtrack can be had for less than $10, or it could be assembled -- probably without too much trouble too.

I have that CD, is there a Sandbox Leonardo or such like?

goooood question -- why don't you make one

you guys i have to tell you something
i bought a copy of that book for $24 this morning and i have confirmation that it is on its way from dunedin
(willing to loan within the midwest, mrs advance and henriettalinita)

still would like to discuss the gun imagery
I mean, have we considered the number of gun songs during roughly the same period elsewhere in the world?
is there a way to search this? any librarians know the answer to this question?

I think that would be complicated. I mean, I do feel like in a period/scene where the archetypal band is the sex pistols, gun imagery might not be too rare?

I will definitely take you up on the offer to borrow that book at some point!

Only database I can think of with searchable song titles is Spotify. I don't know if you can combine with searching by year.
Ah ha http://www.spotify.com/us/blog/archives/2008/01/22/searching-spotify/